Song was used as the opening intro music alongside an orchestra for the 2009-2010 Toronto Raptors home opener.

This song is also a playable track in the rap karaoke video game ' Def Jam Rapstar'.

Hate Me Now is also sampled by the mashup artist Girl Talk on his track 'Hold Up' from his 2006 album Night Ripper.

Nas is featured on the track 'Forbes List'.

Dave East, who has multiple collaborations with Nas, titled his 2015 mixtape 'Hate Me Now'.

The song is the entrance music for Colorado Rockies pitcher Huston Street.

The song was used as the entrance song for Marcus Aurelio at UFC 102.

The song was used as the entrance song for former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir at UFC 81 and UFC 92.

The song was used as the entrance song for Nate Diaz at finale of the 5th season of The Ultimate Fighter.

In June 1999, Stoute sued Combs, resulting in a $500,000 out-of-court settlement from Combs. Within minutes of the broadcast, Combs had barged into the offices of Nas' manager Steve Stoute with several bodyguards, and struck Stoute over the head with a champagne bottle. However, the wrong edit was incorrectly sent to MTV, which broadcast that version on the April 15, 1999, edition of TRL. Puffy, who was a Catholic, had demanded that his crucifixion scene be excised from the broadcast edit of the video.

The music video for the single, directed by Hype Williams and featuring Nas being crucified, was the subject of extreme controversy, as the original edit also featured Sean Combs, then known as Puff Daddy, on the cross.

8 in its '50 Best Rap Videos of the '90s' list. Critical reception įor, Steve Juon said that 'Hate Me Now' was the 'only truly overpowering song' from I Am.: 'It may be yet another mad track about playa hating, but the rebuttal of the hate is crisp and well defined - owing little to cliche.' In 2013, Complex ranked the 'Hate Me Now' video no. The beat samples ' Carmina Burana' by Carl Orff. Composition īiographer Ronin Ro describes Combs's persona in 'Hate Me Now' as 'the angry young rapper battling jealous critics,' a theme that would influence Combs's 1999 album Forever. 'Hate Me Now' was released as a single in the U.S. It fit with my album, I Am., so I did the D-Moet track and it sounded perfect for Puff to be on, so I gave it to him, went to the studio, and he rocked it, knocked it out.' In a 2007 interview with Rolling Stone, Nas recalled the making of the song: 'It was a track D-Moet produced for Foxy Brown, and she didn't want the record, she didn't like it.

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